collaboration

As healthcare organizations become more adept at collaboration, data mining, and understanding the unique populations they serve, they are designing innovative care programs that involve higher risks and rewards.

Savvy healthcare organizations are embracing strategies to simultaneously improve the bottom line and care quality. Sometimes responsible for two separate aspects of the health system, now CFO and CNO collaboration is vital to a hospital’s success.

With clinicians wasting 45 minutes per day playing phone tag, it’s time to retire pagers and migrate to a secure messaging solution, that saves your staff time, is HIPAA compliant and fosters workflow collaboration.

OpenLab provides an environment and set of resources where customers representing telecommunications, education, government, financial services, and virtually every other vertical market can explore new technologies, all in the spirit of network transformation. By examining SDN/network automation solutions such Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), and others, OpenLab offers a platform for developing and delivering new network-integrated functionality that serves the greater need.

Consumerization of IT (with BYOD) and mobile-cloud initiatives are quickly becoming the norm in order for businesses to stay competitive. This is forcing organizations to think beyond basic end user productivity and collaboration, and embrace modern business mobility initiatives that require reengineering core business processes to a mobile-cloud model.

The mobile-cloud era is here. It is not merely about delivering apps; it is about simplifying processes so you can accomplish more. The mobile-cloud era is redefining productivity by enabling workflows through the key foundations of identity and contextual experiences, mobile collaboration, united endpoint management and security, and windows apps and desktops.
Today people work primarily from mobile sources and expect a strikingly continuous experience across all their devices, regardless of which device they select to best accomplish any given task. Once access is established, organizations are looking to transform processes to mobile so they can increase efficiency and workflows for end users, thereby driving productivity to the next level.

An interactive white paper describing how to get smart about insider threat prevention - including how to guard against privileged user breaches, stop data breaches before they take hold, and take advantage of global threat intelligence and third-party collaboration.
Security breaches are all over the news, and it can be easy to think that all the enemies are outside your organization. But the harsh reality is that more than half of all attacks are caused by either malicious insiders or inadvertent actors.1 In other words, the attacks are instigated by people you’d be likely to trust. And the threats can result in significant financial or reputational losses.

Every day more businesses are using the cloud to get work done. And for good reason. With cloud collaboration services constantly enhancing security features, the cloud is quickly becoming one of the most secure and simple ways for businesses— just like yours—to get work done from any device, any time. Read this eye-opening e-book to find out:
Why 79% of businesses trust the cloud
How business-class cloud services use high-level encryption tech to protect every file and document
Why 79% of IT pros say it’s people, not technology, that cause security gaps.

Ever feel like it takes too long to do something that should be simple? Or feel like your work processes just have way too many steps? Don’t worry – help is here. Discover how you can improve your efficiency at work when you:
Develop standard operating procedures to ensure accuracy, timeliness and customer satisfaction.
Make collaboration easy and empowering.
Streamline customer communications with clear schedules and touch points.

In recent years, ransomware such as Locky and KeRanger have emerged as a top threat, not just to consumers, but to businesses with high-value data. Read this whitepaper for four best practices to protect yourself from this costly threat, including:
Evaluating web browser configuration and virtualization options
Protecting mobile devices against attack through containerization
Reducing the risks of collaboration through secure EFSS solutions

When your business doesn’t provide adequate digital collaboration tools, your employees are likely to use their own – potentially compromising security. Read this informative whitepaper for three ways to improve employee collaboration while ensuring compliance with security policies:
Why a consolidated approach to file sharing can boost security and productivity
How business-wide adoption of enterprise-level tools aids workplace mobility
What time-consuming tasks can be automated to improve efficiency and security

With cloud collaboration services constantly enhancing security features, the cloud is quickly becoming one of the most secure and simple ways for businesses similar to yours to get work done from any device, any time. Download this e-Book to find out:
What benefits 85% of businesses get from relying on the cloud
How business-class cloud services use encryption to protect your data
Why 79% of IT pros say it’s people, not technology, that cause security gaps

54% of UK office workers spend some of their time working away from the office, but how do you make sure they’re able to interact with clients and each other? You can’t afford to miss a beat. Download this e-Book for 5 tips to collaborate with your clients from anywhere, including how to:
Use the cloud without compromising security
Make client meetings feel more personal
Customize your mobile alerts to ensure they’re helpful

In recent years, ransomware such as Locky and KeRanger have emerged as a top threat, not just to consumers, but to businesses with high-value data. Read this whitepaper for four best practices to protect yourself from this costly threat, including:
Evaluating web browser configuration and virtualization options
Protecting mobile devices against attack through containerization
Reducing the risks of collaboration through secure EFSS solutions

When your business doesn’t provide adequate digital collaboration tools, your employees are likely to use their own – potentially compromising security. Read this informative whitepaper for three ways to improve employee collaboration while ensuring compliance with security policies:
Why a consolidated approach to file sharing can boost security and productivity
How business-wide adoption of enterprise-level tools aids workplace mobility
What time-consuming tasks can be automated to improve efficiency and security

Jim Brown, President of Tech-Clarity, explores how fast growing, midsized, High-Tech manufacturing companies can accelerate their time-to-market by streamlining their engineering and business processes on a unified platform.
Watch the 20-min webinar and learn:
• How a unified platform accelerates collaboration between all stakeholders of product development
• How the principle of ‘invisible governance’ helps engineering teams save time on unnecessary reporting and administration
• How online collaboration helps build customer intimacy and validate product ideas early and effectively
• How modern, secure social collaboration platforms can smoothly transition to structured product development

Technology has always enabled companies to reinvent how they engage with customers. But now we are seeing a profound shift – the convergence of physical and digital customer interactions – which is fundamentally changing how customers will interact and transact with brands and businesses everywhere. To better understand these dynamics, the IBV is conducting a Customer Experience (CX) study, published as a series, with multiple reports organized by topic.

Collaboration in the enterprise requires a triumvirate of people, process and technology to be successful. With the plethora of collaboration applications available today, both IT professionals and collaboration business users alike need to take a holistic approach to be successful with
collaboration. This paper lets you know about some of the common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Some companies opt to deploy UC solutions on-premises, but the cloudbased model is gaining popularity. Cloud-based UC solutions are ideal for businesses that have limited IT staff, a distributed workforce and/or a desire for pay-as-you-go flexibility.
By enabling diverse communication media to be carried over a common IP network, UC solutions make it possible to manage a full suite of capabilities from a single point—and use them with common devices.
But what’s the best way to maximize UC capabilities for your specific workplace? Spiceworks surveyed IT decision makers to get their insights on identifying and deploying collaboration and communication solutions across their organizations. This white paper explores the survey results, including key concerns, pain points, and roadmaps around driving UC strategies.

In today’s highly competitive business environment, top companies will be the ones that have developed innovative ways to create stellar communications experiences that keep the end users engaged—employees and customers alike.
Video and Web conferencing have become well-established tools to drive rich internal as well as external communications. However, to make an impact, these collaboration tools must be reliable and intuitive to use. Continuous communication offers hassle-free integrated user experiences that fit today’s mobile work styles. Technology advancements and changing perceptions are opening up innovative opportunities, which offer businesses new avenues to create a competitive edge. Smart companies must catch on or get left behind.

This white paper is a business briefing for C-Level Executives on how integrating a range of technologies - including unified communications, service oriented architecture, virtualization and cloud computing - can transform the productivity and profitability of large enterprises.

With the current state of the economy, IT executives are being asked to stretch their budgets in order to keep their businesses profitable. In 2008, Median IT spending per user fell to $6,667 from the previous year's $7,397, according to Computer Economics. This represents a 6.2% reduction, consistent with the fact that IT managers were supporting an increasing number of users without corresponding increases in IT spending. IT spend continued to decline in 2009 and uncertainty and caution is still prevalent in 2010.

Email is the primary communication system and file transport mechanism used in organizations of all sizes. Email systems generate enormous amounts of content that must be preserved for a variety of reasons, including:
-Compliance with local, state, federal and international statutory requirements
- Electronic discovery requirements and best practices
- Knowledge management applications
- Disaster recovery and business continuity